Key by Susan Wicks

Key by Susan Wicks

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Summary

Jan works in a small country bookshop in the south of England and instigates a strange and unsettling relationship with a man who wanders in one day to buy a book. She describes and explores the relationship, interweaving the account with her experiences of an affair many years earlier.

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Key by Susan Wicks

This waas a first novel by a writer who had already established herself as a poet and prose artist of extraordinary talent. In the course of the tale, a woman with a long memory tries to learn the art of manipulation. Two love affairs and a crazy female friendship nourished on unlikely objects are at the centre of her life. The small ads that say so much about the world around her, the fascination of a borrowed record, and the fraying shirt that has taken the place of her absent husband - these are important too. What it all adds up to is a compelling, unusual and often funny love story which is also something of an exercise in detection.
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ISBN 13 9780571192038
ISBN 10 0571192033
Title Key
Author Susan Wicks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1998-05-18
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.